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This year we’ve not seen any swarm cells at all in my home apairy ( 20 hives ) and I’ve only been called to one swarm where as last year I did over 30 swarm call outs. My hives are bursting at the seams so it’s not a case of there being a lack of bees, all the queens are old as I don’t kill...

We know that Varroa prefers drone brood to worker brood but how do they know the difference? Do they simply enter the cell at a certain stage in brood development and thus recognise something different in the brood lava between Drone and Worker or is it the cell size they recognise?